Best Doctors for Pilonidal Sinus in Germany

• Prof. Dr. med. Markus Guba is a General Surgeon specializing in Transplantation and Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery with experience of more than 24 years.
• He is a member of the German Society For Surgery, European Society of Transplantation, and American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
• He studied medicine at the University of Regensburg and the Medical School Harare, Zimbabwe, and Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (summa cum laude) in 1998.
• He also has a Clinical Fellowship in Transplantation and Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery from the Multiorgan Transplant Program and Department of Surgery, University Healthcare Network, Toronto General Hospital, Canada.
• Prof. Guba's main focus includes the surgical treatment of malignant tumors of the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas, thyroid, lung, and rectum.
• Other than his practice, he enjoys writing articles and book chapters for national and international journals.

• Prof. Dr. Carl J Oldhaffer is a well-known General Surgeon with experience of more than 19 years.
• He is a member of the DGC German Society for Surgery, DGAV German Society for General and Visceral Surgery, and various scientific working groups.
• He has worked in a multitude of prestigious organizations and graduated from Germany Universities.
• Dr. Oldhaffer has a comprehensive practice in the field of operative gastric diseases, bariatric surgery, and also operations on the stomach, intestines, and gallbladder, while also treating abdominal and tumor diseases.
• He has a number of publications to his credit in various reputed national and international journals.

• Prof. Dr. med. Carolin Tonus is a General & Visceral Surgeon with experience of more than 23 years.
• She is an active member of the German Society for Surgery, German Society for General and Visceral Surgery, Professional Association of German Surgeons (BDC), Surgical Working Group Oncology (CAO), International Society Of Intraoperative Radiation Therapy, International Colon and Rectal Cancer Club (ICRCC), and many more.
• She studied medicine at the Department of Human Medicine, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in 1985, and received a Ph.D. ("Clinical Significance of the Ligamentum Teres Plastic in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease") in 1991.
• She has interests in Diseases of the colon and rectum as well as the interdisciplinary therapy of colon cancer (including irradiation of advanced tumors on the open abdomen - IORT). Sarcoma Center.
• Dr. Tonus has received various awards such as the Teaching award for outstanding teaching at the Asklepios Campus Hamburg 2012, Teaching award for outstanding teaching at the Asklepios Campus Hamburg 2013, Asklepios Award 2015 (2nd prize in the innovation category), etc.
• She continues to serve in the field of general surgery while also writing publications and articles in prestigious journals.

• Prof. Dr. med. Marco Niedergethmann is a General & Visceral Surgeon with experience of more than 22+ years in the field.
• He is a certified visceral surgeon from the German Society for General and Visceral Surgery for surgical diseases of the pancreas (since 2010), liver (since 2011), coloproctology (since 2013), and minimally invasive surgery (since 2019).
• He studied medicine in Marburg, Heidelberg/Mannheim, and San Francisco, USA, and received his license to practice medicine and doctorate in 1998.
• In 1998, he trained as a specialist in surgery, vascular surgery, and visceral surgery at the Surgical University Clinic Mannheim.
• Dr. Niedergethmann is specialized in procedures such as gastric sleeve resection, gastric band surgery, biliopancreatic diversion, revision surgeries, minimally invasive procedures, etc.
• He has more than 50 international journals and more than 100 domestic reports and papers on his medical field.

• Prof. Dr. Med. Martin Strik is a surgical oncologist with 23+ years of experience.
• His clinical interest lies in Surgical Oncology, Minimal Invasive Surgery, Oncologic Surgery of Upper and Lower GI, Pancreatic and Hepatic Surgery, Esophagus and Stomach Surgery, Colorectal Surgery (malignant and benign), Abdominal Soft Tissue Tumors (Sarcomas), Coloproctology, Endocrine Surgery, Thyroid Surgery and Incisional Hernia surgery.
• He graduated from the University of Wurzburg, Germany and post-graduation from the University of Bern, Switzerland.
• He also did a surgical residency at the University Hospital, Freiburg.
• Dr. Strik is certified by the German Cancer Society, German Hernia Society and German Society for General and Visceral Surgery.
• He has authored many scientific papers and publications for national journals.
• He is a speaker of the German HNPCC-Study group and secretary of the CAMO.

• Dr. Huseyin Bektas is a Surgical Oncologist. He is Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences. 
• Dr. Bektas is a member of The Association of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, German Society for Surgery, Association of Northwest German Surgeons, Association of German Surgeons, International College of Surgeon, Regenerative Medicine and Experimental Surgery (ReMediES).  He is also a   Board Member of SAZ Children’s Fund.
• Dr.Bektas studied medicine at Medizinische Hochschule Hanover (MHH, Hanover) where he teaches too.
• His areas of interest are, performing liver resection procedures and treating pancreatic cancer and transplant, Hepatocellular carcinoma and Gastric cancer.
• He has contributed significantly to many scientific publications. 

•  Dr. Johann Ockenga is a Surgical Oncologist and a Gastrointestinal Surgeon at Bremen-Mitte Clinic with an experience of 20 years. 
•  He was the Secretary of the German Society of Nutritional Medicine (2012). He has worked on several projects to develop guidelines for nutritional medicine. He has also contributed to the review of the World Journal of Gastroenterology. 
•  He possesses expertise in treating Sigmoid adenocarcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Hepatitis B, Liver Diseases, Immunology and Colon cancer. 
•  He has contributed several papers to various publications over his career of two decades.  
 

• Dr. med. Skander Bouassida is a Surgical Gastroenterologist with 18+ years of experience in the field of Coloproctology.
• He is a member of the German Society of Coloproctology (DGK), German Continence Society (DKG), European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP), and German Society of General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV).
• He has been honored by numerous awards and Gold Medals including an Award of the German Society of Coloproctology (DGK) for work about anal fistula (LIFT-Procedure), etc.
• He completed his medical education at the University of Leipzig, Germany in 1997, and he was a Fellow of the European Board for Surgical Qualification – section Coloproctology (EBSQ-C) in 2014.
• He has authored more than 100 publications in various scientific national and international journals.
• Dr. Bouassida is well-versed with procedures such as Laparoscopic minimally invasive colorectal surgery, Robotic-assisted minimally invasive colorectal surgery, Transanal minimally invasive surgery, no scar surgery, Laser surgery in proctology, Reconstructive anorectal surgery, D‘Hoore robotic rectopexy with bioimplant, Botox-supported technique proctology, etc.